Some posts may contain affiliate links. Why Everyone Should Have an Alcohol Stash All preppers have some knowledge of the use of alcohol in a post SHTF world. Mainly it is well known to be one of the best items for barter. Even during the hardest of times like the great depression people seemed to …
Save Money Using Vintage Homemaking Skills One aspect of homesteading that tends to be a bit romanticized are the chores that come with it! The ideal vision is setting on the big old front porch in a old rocker sipping home squeezed lemonade while watching the sun set. This image in the mind can become a daily fact of …
Multi Purpose Survival Items You May Already Have Prepping isn’t always an inexpensive lifestyle or proposition. Face it you need good gear because if it fails when you need it there are no do overs. Very few of us have an unlimited budget and if surviving means bugging out there is only so much you …
5 Recipes Every Survival Chef Should Know Everyone hopes to have enough food supplies to make it through any crisis that might befall them and that their supply line will be active again before it’s needed. But depending on that is risky and assumes that the crisis will be short term. A wise stockpile includes …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. MIY Potted Meat: FAQs & Recipe (2 links) Now days when I hear potted meat I think spam or corned beef. Neither make my taste buds tingle. Although either are decent choices for stockpiling if your palate enjoys them. I do have a couple of recipes in my repertoire that call …
Inspiring Ideas Dollar Store Hacks Who doesn’t want to save money and at least appear to be clever and creative? Everyone right!? But where oh where to come up with those inexpensive hacks and inspirational ideas? I do so with researching all the bright ideas of others then applying them to my own use with …
12 Unconventional & Frugal Uses for Safety Pins No household junk drawer or lady’s vanity drawer is complete without safety pins. Honesty I don’t even know where the safety pins in my home came from! They just always seem to be there when I need one. I am sure they were purchased at one time …
MIY Toothpaste 3 Recipes Oral hygiene is so much more important than people realize. Infected teeth can negatively effect your heart and throat. Bad teeth hurt and interfere with your nutrition and your sleep both leave you venerable to other illnesses. This will be especially important post SHTF when medical and dental care will be …
15+ Uses for Dryer Sheets That Don’t Have Anything to do With a Dryer! Multi-use items are one way to make the best use of what you already have. Which of course saves money and un-necessary trips to the market to replace this or that product. A couple things I particularly like about multiple uses for dryer …
Russian Tea Recipes For Colds & Flu Today I have two recipes for you. There are literally dozens of recipes for Russian tea. These two are my personal favorites. Both are excellent for colds and flu, I am not a doctor, of course so I can’t tell you with scientific facts or certainty that either …
